Good work from home companies

[Not_Giving_Up]

I'm really considering getting into something I can do from home - typing or something similar. There are tons of companies who you can go through to do this, but I know that a large part of them are probably shady. Does anyone know of a good company??

Info can be PMed if needed, in case there would be an objection to publicly posting info.

[ZenLefty]

1. I work from home.

But it's a really shady company. ;-)

[Not_Giving_Up]

2. Does it pay well?

What do you do? Is it evil?

[ZenLefty]

8. Very evil.

I work for a commercial title company. So when wal-mart wants to buy, zone, construct and develop a nice swath of land, I'm the guy who helps them. Or some big developer wants to take a few hundred acres of pristine wilderness and drop houses onto it from their spaceship up above, I assist in their endeavor. Or when a slum lord needs to refinance his apartment building so he can have some vacation money while his tenants freeze in the dark... yup, I help him too.

Actually, it's not that bad. Most of our clients are good people. Even wal-mart was good to work with, compared to other corporate behemoths.

This job isn't normally worked from home. At other companies, it's very paper intensive. An individual commercial file is several feet high. A few years ago, my current boss and I met in a bar and discussed forming a new company that could do the whole thing paperless. We called it "Operation Bathrobe & Slippers". That took about a year to effectuate, but once that was done, we could enable people to work from remote locations. I could move to Orcas Island, and as long as I can get high speed internet I could connect to the work server and get work done. I keep my own hours, as long as things don't run late then everybody's happy.

It's not always fun, and there are a few disadvantages. You have to stay focused, and not sit and post on DU all day (like me), or work won't get done. But other than that, it's nice to work in bathrobe & slippers. And I don't miss the commute!!

[Marnieworld]

3. I know! I know!

I bet you work for yourself right? I wish I could work from home. I know that my doggies would vote for that.

[Not_Giving_Up]

4. I don't yet

I work for back stabbing repukes. That's why I want to work from home!

[Marnieworld]

6. Me too! Real freeper types

I even thrwarted their attempt to put Pro-Bush propaganda with our paychecks right before the election. Thank you internet! All I did was google and search until I found the exact labor law this violated. :D I don't think they know it was me but I did have a Kerry sticker on my car so they know where I stand. I was outed as a liberal when I showed up on the front page of the local paper waiting in line to see the first possible showing of Fahrenheit 911. oops!

I would loooooove to work from home. But then again I wouldn't be paid to post on DU like I am right now. Thanks freepers!

[KurtNYC]

5. JetBlue, AIG and Travelers

Sending those jobs to India would cut the costs even more, to maybe $10 an hour in wages and overhead. But JetBlue thinks the better service from home agents offsets that price advantage, notwithstanding the occasional barking dog in the background. Only one out of every 300,000 JetBlue passengers files a complaint for overbooking, baggage mishandling or other customer service problems, compared with three for big carriers like Continental and US Airways, according to federal data. Employees seem content. Agent turnover was only 4% last year, and the job is so popular that JetBlue rarely has to advertise to fill open positions.

David Neeleman, the discount carrier's chief, first used at-home workers when he ran Morris Air 12 years ago, well before offshoring became a political issue. His motivation was mainly to make agents happy, the theory being that happy workers sound better on the phone than morose ones. When JetBlue started in 1998, he put in the same setup.

Other companies, such as AIG and Travelers, are making use of home workers, too. Those financial giants contract with ARO, a Kansas City, Mo.-based call center that only uses home reps. ARO owner Michael Amigoni says rivals have to justify investments in real estate for call centers. Slippers are cheaper.

http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2004/0524/064.html

[Not_Giving_Up]

7. Cool

Thanks!!!!!

"Slippers are cheaper" I like that!